Re: Digitally sign only a portion of an EXE

I would just put your string table and dialog templates in a separate
resource dll. That way you can use conventional methods to sign the exe
without requiring that locale-specific data be signed.

"brianb" <brianb30@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1138705773.256677.156290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am interested in being able to digitally sign an EXE, however I want
> to exclude the string table and some dialogs from the signing process,
> and be able to modifiy these entries without having to resign the EXE.
>
> Is this something that is possible?
>
> I read somewhere (pecoff.doc) that localization could be made easier by
> excluding resources in the message digest, allowing the resource
> section to be updated with new languages without having to resign the
> code.
>
> What I cannot figure out (I am new to signing files) is how to limit
> what the message digest includes. Is this done by creating a new
> certificate which explicitly excludes certain sections of the file, or
> are there parameters passed to SignCode.EXE that will help it determine
> what to add to the digest?
>
> Can anyone point me to some information that can assist?
>
> Thanks,
> - Brian
>


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